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From the signs of spring and a daring escape to fighting flooding, from “Coffee Day” to cleaning up chromium, here’s a look back on the week that was 125, 100,

The Deschutes Land Trust announced that Rika Ayotte will become its next executive director on July 6, 2021. Rika brings demonstrated experience in leadership, collaboration, and nonprofit management to lead the Land Trust in conserving and caring for the lands and waters that sustain Central Oregon for generations to come. Since 2015, Rika Ayotte has served as the executive director for Discover Your Forest, a Central Oregon non-profit partner to the Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests. She holds an MBA in nonprofit management and is also the founder and CEO of Forest Path Consulting, a non...

Interactions with outsiders energized Wilmington’s World War II home front, exploding from isolation to inundation. Numerous women I interviewed for my wartime Wilmington books said the war years were the most exciting of their lives, during ages 16 into their 20s. “Instead of just meeting people around the corner, we met a wide variety from all over,” Sally Josey remembered. And, young women found they could hold real jobs before romancing, albeit invigorating and exhausting. War or not, the flourishing social life inevitably generated myriad connections and characterized the times. He...

Wilmington, World War II: A time of love, weddings, and waiting Wilbur D. Jones Jr. © WILBUR JONES/FOR THE STARNEWS Louise Washburn (left) and friends entertain Camp Davis Army officers at Wrightsville Beach during World War II. She later married fellow Wilmingtonian Air Force Lt. Col. George Boylan. Interactions with outsiders energized Wilmington’s World War II home front, exploding from isolation to inundation. Numerous women I interviewed for my wartime Wilmington books said the war years were the most exciting of their lives, during ages 16 into their 20s. “Instead...